BLATHWAYT WILLIAM Two Autograph Letters Signed WmBlathwayt a

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MENTIONS FIRE THAT DESTROYED WHITEHALL IN 1698 BLATHWAYT, WILLIAM. Two Autograph Letters Signed, "WmBlathwayt," as Secretary at War, to unnamed recipients ("Sir"). The first, reporting on lack of doctors at a hospital in Liege and on movements of the main army [during the Siege of Namur]. The second, concerning a ship to be secured for Prince of Vaudémont, and requesting a copy of a contract and a record of forage deliveries to Lord Ranelaugh, and in a postscript, remarking that Whitehall is likely to be destroyed by fire. Together 3 pages, 4to, each with integral blank; short closed tears at folds, minor scattered soiling. "Malo[i]gne Abb[e]y" [Namur], 23 August [1695]; "Whitehall" [London], 4 January [1698]

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4 January [1698]: ". . . Whitehall is just now on fire by an accid't and most of it is like to be burnt down. We are safe towards the Park."
with--William Blathwayt. Document Signed, accounting ledger recording the salaries of the Lords of the Committee for Trade and Plantations from December 25, 1679 to March 25, 1680. Additionally signed by Henry Compton, Bishop of London ("HLondon"), and four others. 2 pages, folio, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet. Np, 27 March 1680.